Weasel Streeting

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Weasel Streeting should slither back under his rock.

His self-serving career aspirations will make our country ungovernable.

His name is Weasley Streeting.
There's David Lamby too.

Oh I think it’s great - no he won’t win, but it gets him out of the cabinet. And hopefully the little toad/weasel/rat/insert other small shifty animal here will lose his seat at the next election, his majority is ridiculously small.

interesting now Andy Burnham has something to go for , what a mess !!

I think the rise of social media has a lot to do with the "personality politics".

Pre-late 90's, governing politicians wouldn't really have known what the general masses thought of them until it came to an election.

Now, with every man and his dog posting their (un) educated views on social media platforms, politicians and their advisors know almost instantaneously how their latest plan/scheme/idea has landed with the general public hence flip flopping, u-turning and backstabbing galore - because, they need the public to vote them in next time.

The Press too, can pick up on voter dissatisfaction and, of course, thrives on mayhem and drama and fans the flames to ramp it all up a notch.

To be fair, you do wonder why anyone would want the job.

@Naunet

I don’t want to undermine the importance of what that section of the letter said, because it was important, but what it said and what th wording of your comment suggested that it said are quite different:

”Over a year ago I presented solutions, long worked on by brilliant civil servants that would end the ability for children in the UK to take naked images of themselves. 91% of online child sex abuse is self-generated by children groomed, tricked and exploited in to abuse. The technology exists to stop children being able to take naked images of themselves. We could make this possible on every phone and device in the country. We could stop this abuse. It has taken me a year to get you to agree to even threaten to legislate in this space. Not legislate, just threaten. This is the definition of incremental change. Nothing bold about it. The announcement was meant to be in March, I'm still on a promise this will happen in June, I've given up believing it. How many children were left without a safety net in the time we dilly dallied and worried about tech bosses?”

Please explain how th8s is different to what I said?

@Naunet

A lot of pretty big things have happened globally from March onwards.She’s been told that the announcement will happen in June… But, as one of Wes Streeting’s allies, she has chosen now - at this specific time - to jump on the bandwagon, even though next month has not happened yet.

Honestly, I have an awful lot of respect for Jess Phillips - I did and mostly still do really like her, but she is unfortunately yet another MP who has behaved as a celebrity in recent years. This comes off as Jess Phillips putting her own status before the implementation of this policy which she says is important. How likely is it that it is going to be implemented once Wes Streeting, Jess Phillips and the rest tear that Labour Party apart and Nigel Farage starts whipping the country into a frenzy about having a GE because the government no longer have a mandate??

Rather him over Andy Burnham or Angela rayner

It’s just the game of politics, they all know what they’re getting themselves into. If anyone’s watched House of Cards, I honestly think the game is like that. They all flocked around him and sucked up to him 2 years ago, now he’s unpopular they’re all dropping like flies and stabbing him in the back. Even the ones publicly supporting him will knife him when the time is right. It happened to Bojo too. Very Julius Caesar.

I disagree.

We had one person who condoned sex offenders in Boris Johnson, we don't want someone who maintained a friendship with Peter Mandelson aka Epstein's friend as Prime Minister.

Sometimes they live in rock piles, so technically, they could.

Not sure it was a friendship.

I don't think Wes will run for leadership. I think he's just getting his ducks in a row and will fling his support behind Andy. Then he will be rewarded with a new cabinet job or maybe deputy pm.

The by-election will go to Reform. The job AB is vacating will go to Reform.

A day is a long time in politics! He’s now said he would run in any leadership contest.

Starmer is an absolute disgrace and has been nothing but a disaster since the moment he was elected. Starmer is the weasel. And scumbag, and insult to the office of Prime Minister. Streeting would be 1 thousand times the leader Starmer could ever be. Fuck me even Boris Johnson is better than Starmer. If Starmer had any respect at all for the UK people he would do the decent thing or resign. If he won't, the King should sack him. Every day he remains in that job is an insult to every citizen.

I seen earlier that his allies had allegedly said that. I've not seen the update where Wes has confirmed, will take a look thanks.

It seems likely that SKS will be forced out, by whom who can tell? So there's a lot of jockeying for position under any new leader right now. Look at Al Carns' intervention, which is a veiled bid to be the new Secretary of State for Defence.

The King can’t sack him 😆

@ThatBlackCat ,
Starmer is an absolute disgrace and has been nothing but a disaster since the moment he was elected.
In what way?

Starmer is the weasel. And scumbag, and insult to the office of Prime Minister.
In what way?

Streeting would be 1 thousand times the leader Starmer could ever be.
In what way?

Fuck me even Boris Johnson is better than Starmer.
In what way?

If Starmer had any respect at all for the UK people he would do the decent thing or resign.
What's 'the decent thing'?

If he won't, the King should sack him.
He can't.

Every day he remains in that job is an insult to every citizen.
Please explain what you mean.